This post is in response to Alex Harker’s post “Lone Travelers” and Kate Bennett’s “‘Lone Travelers’ Part Two: Lone and Liberated!” Traveling alone as a young woman elicits a uniformly horrified response from Peruvian locals. Today a friend’s fat[...]
Posts Tagged ‘flying solo’
May 16th, 2011 - 4:45 am § in Day in the Life
“Lone Travelers” Part Two: Lone and Liberated!
...This is before I load my camping gear- and after it’s all crammed in and every zipper is forced shut, my 70 liter pack starts to look like The Hulk, with adjustable straps. It’s getting this monstrosity on your back that is the first, and probably the smallest, challenge to the solo traveler.[...]
Going Abroad Alone or With a Group?
I’ve been thinking about the pros and cons to volunteering through an organization vs. going abroad on your own. When I went to Ecuador through an organization, I wasn’t just another person trying to make it on my own there; I was part of a team working for something, with other voluntee[...]
